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Men's Health Stats on Guy's Beliefs

Every Men's Health magazine I get has a page in the back with statistics about something related to....men's health.  Anyhow, this month was about the average guy and his beliefs.  Here are some interesting stats:

• 71% go to church or synagogue once a year

• 77% say asking for divine intervention paid off at least once

• 83% have prayed in a desperate moment

• 73% believe in miracles

• 69% have watched a televaneglist and 6% of them have opened their checkbooks

• 40% seriously considered making faith a full-time job

• 26% of Evangelical Christians get divorced (much lower than the 50% of Christians we hear about)

Of all of them I think the 40% that seriously considered a "faith job" surprised me the most.  How about you?

Praising God in the NFL

Sorry it's been so long since I blogged.  Things have been crazy lately.  Anyhow, I was just do 3 things at once, one of which was listening to the NFL Network.  They were doing the segment where they talk to the director of officiating to clarify rules and look at controversial calls.  They talked about the rule against celebrating certain ways in the end zone.  Basically, no part of a player's body can touch the ground when they're celebrating, unless, and I quote - "they are praising the Lord".

Very interesting.  The director of officiating said that the rule is in place because he doesn't want to get struck by lighting.  Of course, the rule is in place because they don't want to clamp down on people's religious rights.  But, it made me think about the fact that mentioning such things publicly is a no no for most companies.  The NFL is an interesting dichotomy of a group of players, some of which make big mistakes regularly (a player is arrested about once every 10 days) and others exhibit high character and talk about God and Jesus more than most Christians.  I would go out on a limb and say that the NFL may have more Christian "employees" as a percentage than most non-Christian organizations.

I wonder why that is. 

I have thoughts, what are yours?